Dews Lake Farm

Dews Lake Farm is on the outskirts of Lamphey village with countryside views overlooking the Pembrokeshire National Park. Within a ten-minute drive from the campsite you have the popular seaside town of Tenby, the golden sand beaches of Barafundle and Broad Haven, and the historic castles of Manorbier, Pembroke and Carew.

On site you’ll find grass pitches for tents, campervans and caravans as well as glamping options in luxury bell tents and bunkhouse cabins. Facilities have been updated for 2015 and now include seven hot-water showers, separate ladies’ and gents’ toilets and a chemical disposal area. A communal kitchen is available to all guests on site with a washing-up sink, two fridges, a chest freezer, double electric hob and power sockets for charging mobile phones etc. Laundry service is also available on request.

Campfires are allowed provided they are contained within a firepit (available to hire) and you can also purchase your logs and kindling on site to get set up and toasting marshmallows in no time. The site encourages recycling and makes it as easy as possible for guests to be green during their stay with daily bin collections. During busy times (school holidays and bank holiday weekends) caterers visit the site offering delicious home-cooked and home-reared food.

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We are just seven miles from the popular seaside town of Tenby. During high season (July/August), we recommend getting the train from Lamphey to Tenby as parking can be difficult.

Tenby has beautiful long beaches, a pretty town centre with independent shops, cafés and restaurants. Boat trips leave from the harbour to Caldy Island.

Manorbier beach is just four miles away with is stunning coastline and landmark castle.

Freshwater East beach, a long stretch of beach great for sea swimming, is four miles away. Freshwater West is 14 miles from us.

Local pubs

Welcoming pub built in 1912 as a country club, lovely coastal views, enjoyable reasonably priced home-made food, Felinfoel and guest ales, lounge, dining room and public bar; children and dogs welcome, tables in nice garden, open all day summer

Stone-built pub with unpretentious panelled public bar, bentwood stools at counter, mixed tables and chairs on bare boards, neat eating area, dining rooms upstairs with photos of local scenes, sky-blue tongue-and-groove partitions and black leather chairs, well liked bar food, Brains and Worthington ales, open fires; background music, darts and outdoor pool table; children (away from bar) and dogs welcome, seats in front looking down to river (tidal watermill open for summer afternoon visits), back garden with play equipment and view of imposing Carew Castle ruins and remarkable 9th-c Celtic cross, summer barbecues, open all day

Great views of River Cleddau, toll bridge and Milford Haven beyond from lounge and conservatory restaurant, good choice of pubby food at reasonable prices, well kept Bass, Brains and Greene King, friendly staff; children welcome, dogs in bar, waterside garden with lots of picnic-sets and a play area, can moor a small boat at jetty, open all day in school holidays

Simple unchanging alehouse overlooking tidal creek, plenty of local customers in two old-fashioned linked rooms, built-in wall benches, kitchen chairs and plain tables on red and black tiles, open fire in one room, Aga in the other with lots of pictorial china hanging from high beam-and-plank ceiling, a third more conventionally furnished red-carpeted room, Worthington and a winter guest ale served from glass jugs, no food apart from rolls on Sat; no children; seats outside making most of view, you can arrive by boat if tide is right, open all day weekends

Liked: Great location: typically 15-20 minutes by car to get to places like folly farm etc.Staff were very friendly and helpful.Quite a few taps for drinking water.Shower and kitchen facilities were very clean.To rent a fire pit was cheap including the kindling and logs, really good for roasting marshmallows.

Disliked: The only thing a didn't like was the noise from trains but I think they stop about 11pm anyway so wasn't that much of an issue for us.

Right next to one of the drinking water taps is a drain or sewage line either way it kinda smelled a bit.

Others have picked up on not having any wifi on-site: it would be a nice feature but I went camping to spend time with my kids not to go on the internet so not fussed at all by this.

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Doesn't get much better!2 Aug 2015

Graham O.
(Family with young children, 1 review)
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Date stayed: Jul 2015

Recommend to friends Visit again

Liked: Such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. All the staff were helpful and cheerful. The ground was well maintained and perfect for a tent. Onsite washing up facilities, showers, toilets. Fire pits available to hire or you can bring your own. Reasonably priced logs and kindling on site. Burger van on site Friday-Sunday serving home grown meats and produce. Dog friendly, child friendly, music friendly. I wouldn't hesitate to go to Dews Lake again and would recommend it to all.Thank you Dews Lake!

Liked: We liked the fire pits that were avaliable at the site and enjoyed a fire most nights. We also liked the kitchen facilities, for all campers which included a oven,freezer,kettles and sinks with washing up liquid provided.The toilets and showers were well maintained and clean. Loved the Slow pig catering van that cooked delicious breakfasts and dinners.

Disliked: We didn't dislike anything .

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Very nice campsite24 Jul 2015

Paul J.
(Mature couple, 1 review)
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Date stayed: Jul 2015

Recommend to friends Visit again

Liked: Open space and the cars are left in the carpark creating more space

Disliked: No wifi that was the only draw back

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All good, nice scenery, helpful staff15 Jul 2015

Maciek K.
(Young couple, 1 review)
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Date stayed: Jul 2015

Recommend to friends Visit again

Liked: Liked everything. There is a cow field next to the non-electric pitch that we really enjoyed, but some people might not like it. Pitch is big though, so you can set up a tent on the other side.

Disliked: £2 for kindling. No other way to get it;)

From the manager...

Hello!Thank you for your kind review, we really appreciate your feed back. Glad you enjoyed the company of your four legged, grass munching neighbours! I should probably explain that the logs and kindling we sell onsite are supplied by a local charity that supports adults with disabilities and mental health issues. We sell logs and kindling at cost and all money goes to the charity to continue the occupation training enterprise. Guests do have the option to collect sticks and drift wood from the beach instead of buying kindling, buying a sack of kindling from the local garage (half a mile away) or bringing their own axe to cut kindling. Hope we see you again soon!

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A real gem of a site with a very relaxed atmosphere8 Jul 2015

Moira B.
(Mature couple, 1 review)
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Date stayed: Jul 2015

Recommend to friends Visit again

Liked: Informal, relaxed friendly atmosphere. Campfires around the site were lovely and added to the atmosphere in the evenings. Very peaceful site, and dog friendly. It was great to see children playing around the site and really enjoying themselves. No cars on the field meant the kids could play safely so we were fine with that, wheelbarrows are provided to take your stuff to your pitch. The facilities were clean. Plenty of space for your pitch. Freshwater East, just a couple of miles down the road, is a beautiful sandy beach and dog friendly all year round. Local shop close by and very good chip shop in Pembroke called Top of the Town Chippy. A perfect place to just chill and get away from the stresses of life.

Liked: The site is well organised and the owner was there to greet us on arrival. The atmosphere is very relaxed and the pitches are well laid out with plenty of space. The facilities are very clean and work well.I would recommend this site.

Disliked: Although the location is very peaceful on the whole this site is a bit noisy, when we stayed there were lots of kids running around and a few people arrived very late and were rather inconsiderate with their noise and use of car headlights.Otherwise I would recommend this site.

From the manager...

Thank you for your review and feed back we really appreciate it. So glad you enjoyed your stay I can only apologise for the noisy family who arrived late in the evening. I will advise guests who are due to arrive late to be considerate towards other campers and keep the noise down.

Liked: We arrived at Dews Lake Farm during Wales' worst storms for years, with 70 mile an hour winds and torrential rain. With very little hope of pitching up our tent, Beth very kindly let us stay in one of the camping pods, for a third of the normal price.Myself, my husband and our two year old decided to stay in the pod for the duration of our stay, as it was available and Beth was happy for us to stay there. The pods are beautifully snug and cosy with a double and two single beds, a gas camping stove, crockery, utensils and, our saviour during the storms, a heater.When the weather improved, we made good use of the fire pit, available for all campers to use and great to have.My sister and brother in law pitched their tent in the electric hook-up field, which is large with plenty of flat, good sized pitches.The showers are some of the best we have used at a campsite. We particularly liked the benches and hooks in the shower blocks to keep clothes and towels off the floor.The kitchen has a plenty of amenities for campers to use and lots of local maps and information.Our two year old loved the buckets and spades that we could borrow and the grown ups enjoyed the space hopper!The campsite does have a train line running at the bottom, but the trains are very infrequent and did not detract from the peaceful, relaxed feel of the campsite - our toddlerLoved looking out for them.

Disliked: Despite the initial bad weather, we had a lovely stay, so there was nothing we didn't like.

From the manager...

Thank you for your lovely review. You really did have awful luck with the weather - It's not usually like that! Really pleased you got into the camping spirit and had a lovely holiday despite the storms. I hope you visit again soon and see Pembrokeshire in the sunshine! Beth

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A great holiday17 Sep 2014

David H.
(Solo traveller-male, 1 review)
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Date stayed: Sep 2014

Recommend to friends Visit again

Liked: Excellent in every way. Warm welcome, lovely people, lovely place and situated within easy reach of fantastic coast walks. Everything brand new and spotless. Loads of room and peace and quiet.Very strongly recommended.

Disliked: If anything, another shower for the men

From the manager...

Thank you for your feed back and possitive comments! We have since added 4 additional showers. Hope you visit again soon. Beth

Liked: We loved the freedom of the fields, we weren't constrained where we could pitch; even in peak season. We were with another family and the children (all sub 10) were able to play and roam in safety (no cars on field unless packing up etc). It was perfectly placed for lots of the award winning beaches and although we were there with a potential hurricane on its way, felt safe at all times. Local shops and pubs were accessible and Beth couldn't have been more helpful.

Disliked: Showers were warm, but wet and you could feel slightly cold if another camper unwittingly left the bathroom door open - but this was their first season and the infrastructure was impressive. Beth was always open to suggestions and I'm sure that only improvements will have been made for 2015.

From the manager...

Thank you for the lovely review! We really appreciate the positive comments. We have since added an additional 4 showers with individual changing areas, so no cold breeze! Hope you can visit again soon! Beth

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Directions

Start address or postcode:

From Pembroke:Follow the Upper Lamphey Road under the railway bridge and pass the cricket pitch. As you arrive in Lamphey village turn onto the Ridgeway Road past the Dial Inn. Cross over a small bridge and look out for the sign for Dews Lake Farm on you right-hand side (approximately 1 mile along the Ridgeway Road out of Lamphey).

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Permitted arrival/departure time

Camping and touring

Arrive:

2 p.m. –

Anytime

Depart:

10 a.m.

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2 p.m. –

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Cancellation policy

No refunds within 30 days of arrival date.

If you need to cancel or amend your booking, please give as much notice as possible
so that someone else has the chance to book. You may wish to buy holiday insurance
for cancellations and for your property/injury whilst away.

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Payment of balance

A 15% non-refundable deposit is payable now.
Dews Lake Farm will debit the balance from your card 30 days
before arrival, or if the arrival date is sooner than 30 days
before arrival then the balance will be taken immediately.

Arrive:Thu 7 Mar 2013Depart:Sat 9 Mar 2013
(2 nights)Party:2 adults

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Large tents/caravans: check the restrictions on unit dimensions to ensure your unit is suitable for the space you will be provided with.

This pitch is not suitable for heavy vehicles/motorhomes. Guests are asked to park in the car park and use the wheelbarrows provided to bring kit to their pitch; this is to save the field from getting muddy or dusty.

Shower and kitchen facilities are included in the price.

Please select the large tent supplement if your unit is 6m x 6m or larger.

This pitch is not suitable for heavy vehicles/motorhomes. Guests are asked to park in the car park and use the wheelbarrows provided to bring kit to their pitch; this is to save the field from getting muddy or dusty.

Shower and kitchen facilities are included in the price.

Please select the large tent supplement if your unit is 6m x 6m or larger.